PolInterviews -- A Dataset of German Politician Public Broadcast Interviews

TL;DR

This paper introduces PolInterviews, a comprehensive dataset of German politician interviews from YouTube, enabling research on political communication dynamics and politician behavior in German media contexts.

Contribution

It provides the first open, transcribed dataset of German politician interviews with detailed speaker info, facilitating new research avenues.

Findings

Contains 99 interviews with 33 politicians

Includes 28,146 sentences in a structured format

Enables analysis of political communication patterns

Abstract

This paper presents a novel dataset of public broadcast interviews featuring high-ranking German politicians. The interviews were sourced from YouTube, transcribed, processed for speaker identification, and stored in a tidy and open format. The dataset comprises 99 interviews with 33 different German politicians across five major interview formats, containing a total of 28,146 sentences. As the first of its kind, this dataset offers valuable opportunities for research on various aspects of political communication in the (German) political contexts, such as agenda-setting, interviewer dynamics, or politicians' self-presentation.